Let’s say that one year you had to abandon your garden to go live in Taiwan for several months and your garlic never got harvested that fall. Then, when you got home in the next year, you tried to transplant it in the fall, but it had apparently been too bunched up. You gave it a […]
Easy Honey Curry Chicken
I copied this recipe out of a book 32 years ago. I was in college, renting a room from a divorced lady who liked to tell me how she and her boyfriend laughed at me. o.O I didn’t stay long. Above you can see the index card I wrote it down on. I have since […]
Laura’s Favorite Sweet Pineapple Coleslaw
Having just planted some cabbage seeds a couple of weeks ago, I had an impatient and premature craving for my yummy homemade coleslaw. I finally perfected the recipe last summer, after years of fiddling with it once a year or so and being disappointed. Now, I can whip it out and KNOW I am in […]
Creamy Spring Clam Chowder Better with Bacon
We’ve had a few days of warm spring here now, the eat lunch in the garden, wear short sleeves, admire the crocuses type of day. But mornings like this, when any sunlight that makes it through the windows is filtered through gray clouds that let loose an almost silent drizzle, and the corners of the […]
Triumvirate Bars (Crumbly Vanilla, Chewy Caramel, and Smooth Chocolate)
Time spent in the kitchen tends to leave me happily tired and de-stressed, with an elaborate product on the counter – that is, until I realize that the by products of the cooking include grease and chocolate smears on cutting boards, spatulas floating in the dirty sink water, and a stack of pots and […]